Ian Wright has told Arsenal that they were very lucky to get a point against Wolverhampton Wanderers at the Emirates Stadium.

The former Gunners striker praised Nuno Espirito Santo's side for the intelligent way in which they approached the match to disrupt the home team.

Alexandre Lacazette and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang both featured up front for Unai Emery only to see their efforts denied time and time again, with heroics from Bernd Leno required at the other end to keep the visitors at bay.

"We were very lucky," said Wright on his YouTube channel . "We were fortunate in the end to get away with that. Wolves on a counter-attack they had a plan for us. They were fantastic.

"I spoke about Conor Coady before the game. Even when we went two up front in the second half he coped very well."

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For Wright, Wolves were impressive in how they prevented Arsenal's best players from finding the gaps they need to show their quality, especially Mesut Ozil.

"The tactical fouls Wolves did on us stopped our flow," he added. "Not enough creativity from us going forward. Mesut came off. Couldn't quite get into it as Wolves had the two banks of players and he couldn't find the space he needed."

It ultimately came down to two substitutions from Emery who sent on Aaron Ramsey and Henrikh Mkhitaryan, with the Welshman playing in the Armenian to effectively cross the ball pas Rui Patricio, and the impact of Arsenal head coach delighted the ex-Gunners striker.

"I love our manager," said Wright. "Our half time he realised it wasn't working with Alex Iwobi because we were getting hurt.

"Auba wasn't getting back there to help Sead Kolasinc which is a worry for me in itself and he had to shore that up and I was pleased that he made that decision to do that at half-time as much as it was unfortunate for Iwobi as he has been good recently, it was a good decision and we did get forward more."

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Speaking ahead of the game on Premier League TV the former Highbury favourite heaped praise on Emery for his impact at Arsenal since replacing Arsene Wenger in the dugout.

"Everyone knew that Arsenal needed to get fitter, they needed to have a structure," he said. "It was never in doubt that Arsenal had the players technically to do that. I was just worried that they might not be able to adjust to what he wanted. They've done brilliantly.

"I'm really pleased with how it's gone for Arsenal up until this point. There was a lot of talk about Arsenal having not played anyone and that in a lot of games should have been beaten, should have conceded more but they didn't. They rode their luck. They went on from momentum and I thought they were very very good against Liverpool.

"That was a yardstick for a lot of people, judging them by Liverpool because they're going to give you the test you need."